NAT. ORDER. 



SenticoscB. 



RIBES SANGUINEUM. HIGH BLACKBERRY. 



Class XII. IcosANDRiA. Order V. Polygynia, 



Gen. Char. Calyx, superior, campanulate, five-cleft. Petiole and 

 Stamen inserted upon the calyx. Style two-cleft. Berry 

 many-seeded. 



Spe. Char. Leaves acutely lobed, dentate, reticulate-rugose. 

 Raceins, rather loose, many-flavored, stiffly erect. Berries 

 hisped. 



The root of this elegant and fruitful bramble is long, slender, 

 woody, branched, internally of a white or yellowish appearance, 

 externally of a dark brown, and sends forth numerous small succu- 

 lent fibres; the stem is erect, strong, ribbed, armed, much branched 

 pear the tops, of a greyish-red color, and rises from three to five 

 feet in height ; the leaves are inversely ovate, blunt, entire, dentate, 

 serrated, veined, and stand four or five together upon simj)le foot- 

 Stalks ; the Jlowers are first of a deep red, but afterwards fade into a 

 lioht pink color, and appear on the stalk in slender pendulous ra- 

 cems ; the calyx is composed of six leaflets, which are ovate, concave, 

 colored, deciduous, alternately larger and smaller ; the corolla con- 

 sists pf SIX petals, which are roundish, concave, and at the base fur- 

 nished with two small oblong orange colored nectaries ; the Ji/a- 

 ments are six, erect, compressed, tapering, shorter than the petals, 

 and terminated by double anthers, which adhere to their sides; the 

 germen is cylindrical, and about the length of the filaments; style 

 none ; stigma circular, flat, and surrounded by a sharp border; the 



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